Somewhere along the mid-19th century American East Coast frontier, two neighboring couples battle hardship and isolation, witnessed by a splendid yet testing landscape, challenging them both... Read allSomewhere along the mid-19th century American East Coast frontier, two neighboring couples battle hardship and isolation, witnessed by a splendid yet testing landscape, challenging them both physically and psychologically.Somewhere along the mid-19th century American East Coast frontier, two neighboring couples battle hardship and isolation, witnessed by a splendid yet testing landscape, challenging them both physically and psychologically.
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Karina Ziana Gherasim
- Nellieas Nellie
- (as Karina Gherasim)
Ioachim Ciobanu
- Widow Weldon's Sonas Widow Weldon's Son
- (as Kim Ciobanu)
Sandra Personnic-House
- Mrs. Nottowayas Mrs. Nottoway
- (as Sandra J House)
In upstate New York in the 1850s, Abigail begins a new year on the rural farm where she lives with her husband Dyer. As Abigail considers the year to come through her journal entries, we experience the marked contrast between her deliberate, stoic manner and her unraveling complex emotions. Spring arrives and Abigail meets Tallie, an emotionally frank and arrestingly beautiful newcomer renting a neighboring farm with her husband, Finney. The two strike up a tentative relationship, filling a void in their lives which neither knew existed. —La Biennale
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Terribly shallow and unrewarding
Archetypes present in this film: Dutiful Husband - Dutiful Wife -- Corrupt Husband - Corrupt Wife; the pairs meet each other among the harsh and unforgiving frontier and a fatuous/self-absorbed performance ensues... there's honestly nothing more to see here folks. This film fails to offer any authentic insight into the lives of men and women in the 1800's, although it definitely thinks it does (from its 21st century/1st-world high chair), but there is nothing believable about the behaviors of these characters, At All. Beautiful cinematography/landscapes/costumes, great actors/narration/language, this movie had many things going for it, but the lack of realism does it's intended message (of patriarchal, oppressive, forbidden love themes) zero other favors; it's all too poetic, the way the story progresses has no sensibility about it and truly is all mindless anguish in the end---if this is what tickles your fancy, this one may be for you; otherwise, hard pass people x.
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- chaakar
- Mar 11, 2021
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